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Last Monday -- less than a week ago -- Shawn Burr was a free man. He saw his daughter's game, he came home, he made a shake with pomegranate seeds, something his wife had purchased at Costco.
Next day, he felt funny. His tongue developed red spots. "The seeds," he figured. He also was exhausted. He went to the doctor. While there, he began to sweat. They sent him to the hospital. Blood was taken. When another doctor said, "We need to check something," Shawn turned to his wife, Amanda, and said, "This isn't good news. Did you see his face?"
It wasn't good news. Burr, 44, was helicoptered from Port Huron to the University of Michigan Medical Center with a blood count that was as lopsided as a bankruptcy budget.
On Thursday, three days from the pomegranate shake, he underwent the first of 21 chemotherapy treatments for acute myeloid leukemia, a bone marrow cancer in which abnormal white cells attack normal cells like a 3-on-1 hockey rush.
Last Monday -- less than a week ago -- Shawn Burr was a free man. He saw his daughter's game, he came home, he made a shake with pomegranate seeds, something his wife had purchased at Costco.
Next day, he felt funny. His tongue developed red spots. "The seeds," he figured. He also was exhausted. He went to the doctor. While there, he began to sweat. They sent him to the hospital. Blood was taken. When another doctor said, "We need to check something," Shawn turned to his wife, Amanda, and said, "This isn't good news. Did you see his face?"
It wasn't good news. Burr, 44, was helicoptered from Port Huron to the University of Michigan Medical Center with a blood count that was as lopsided as a bankruptcy budget.
On Thursday, three days from the pomegranate shake, he underwent the first of 21 chemotherapy treatments for acute myeloid leukemia, a bone marrow cancer in which abnormal white cells attack normal cells like a 3-on-1 hockey rush.
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